Improvement in band-fasteners



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE,

EDWIN DRESSER, OF CAMBRIDGE, ASSIGNOR T O OAMBRIDGEPORT DIARY COMPANY,OF GAMBBIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAND-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,079, dated June 29,1875 application filed February 3, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN DRESSER, of Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved MetallicFastener for Holding the Ends of Bands, particularly applicable toconfining the ends of elastic bands on diaries. pocketbooks, andmemorandum-books and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a top view ofthe fastener; Fig. 2, a side view thereof; Fig. 3, a cross-sec tion ofthe same; Fig. 4., a cross-section of the fastening, together with theends of the band secured thereto.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

Myinvention consists in a plate, A, of metal, in which a central slot,a, is formed by cutting a narrow strip or bar, 1), of the metal at itsside edges, the ends thereof remaining joined to the main plate, andthen swaging the said strip down somewhat below the plane of the platefar enough. to introduce the respective ends 0 0 of the band between itsedges and the edges of the slot. These ends of the band are thenretained in place by pressing or swaging back the strip or bar 1) towardthe plane of themain plate as closely as the material of the band willpermit, thereby pinching them securely, so that they cannot be drawnout. The fastener is provided with suitable tangs or clips (I d, to beinserted through the side thickness of the diary or other article towhich the band is attached, and then be bent down close upon the innersurface thereof.

Any unessential variation from the construction, as herein described,may be made, pro- Vided the feature claimed is substantially retained.

What I claim as my invention, and desire.

